The Artist in Residence program partners media artists with learning spaces to facilitate student-led community investigations, which culminate in a collaborative media project. 

The project explores a complex community issue through the lens of classroom content. This results in a collaborative media-making process that uncovers stories at the heart of the schooling experience.

AIR seeks to embrace the complexity and intersectionality inherent in educational policy and reform. Often, these conversations become one dimensional in an attempt to make it easier to comprehend and measure. This leads to flat, technical solutions that fail to address the root causes of the educational crisis. 

AIR facilitates space for young people to discuss and showcase this complexity through our programmatic pillars of curiosity, connection and reflection, all while encouraging creativity through media making. 

Collaborative media projects start with big questions such as, “Why are people leaving Detroit?” “Why are we opening a new school?” “How do schools measure success?” or “Who gets to write history?”

View some of our past projects here.

VIEW SOME OF OUR PAST AIR PROJECTS

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